Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the new Platform Readiness team, which builds internal tooling that checks whether features are ready for Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government and GitLab.com. The work is automated and agentic, built on the Duo Agent Platform.
What you will do
- Design and evolve the team's agentic workflows on the Duo Agent Platform, including the core workflow and Requirements Agent
- Evolve the platform requirements knowledge base, including schema design, validation tooling and CI
- Build integrations in issues, merge requests, design documents and CI/CD pipelines so feature teams can engage the team
- Work with Infrastructure, Security and Data teams to turn their expertise into structured requirements and validation logic
- Build feedback loops that surface assessment errors and gaps, and measure assessment accuracy
- Mentor engineers on agentic-workflow standards and evaluation, and write architecture decision records
What they ask for
- 5+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years in backend, platform or developer tooling
- Strong TypeScript/Node, Python or Go (Ruby a plus)
- Experience shipping developer-facing tooling where the user is another engineer
- Understanding of issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD and code review as inputs for automation
- Ability to work across several platform teams
- Experience with structured content systems, schemas or validation tooling
- Valued: AI agent frameworks, LLM API integration, PostgreSQL at scale
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
